Post Tagged with: "FirstEnergy"

SOLON — “The Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council, or NOPEC, has approved a three year contract with NextEra Energy Services Ohio, a subsidiary of Florida-based NextEra Energy Resources, to supply power to some 500,000 Northeast Ohio consumers and small businesses. NOPEC made this decision 10 days after current supplier FirstEnergy […]

CLEVELAND — “FirstEnergy has decided to get out of the competitive electricity business, and will sell or close its big coal and nuclear power plants within 18 months unless Ohio and Pennsylvania return to regulating them and setting prices or create a regulation-like structure for them. ‘We are not going […]

AKRON — “The sweetheart marriage that FirstEnergy Solutions Corp. offered the Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council six years ago has soured, and today NOPEC and the power supplier are at one another’s throats. The parties are battling before Summit County Common Pleas Court Judge Tammy O’Brien over fallout from failed negotiations to change their […]

AKRON — “Chuck Jones needs to find about $200 million. That’s roughly the amount that Jones, CEO of Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp., says he needs to find in cost savings to preserve his company’s credit rating — and ultimately to stay independent. It will mean cuts to FirstEnergy’s expenses. That includes […]

TOLEDO — “At first glance, it appears that the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio put its proverbial foot down when it rejected FirstEnergy Corp.’s request for funding to improve its power grid. But closer scrutiny reveals that the utility seems to have been handed a ‘cash grab’ and no requirement […]

Ohio regulator nod on $600 to $1 billion in ratepayer subsidies presages a similar campaign in West Virginia COLUMBUS — “The Public Utility Commission of Ohio this week gave FirstEnergy a much smaller bailout than the company wanted. But it’s still a bailout. We expect opponents—including consumer and environmental organizations, […]

No one cheers for alternative: $600 million over 3 years COLUMBUS — “The PUC of Ohio rejected First Energy’s ‘virtual’ power purchase agreement (PPA) proposal yesterday, but approved staff’s proposal to pay the firm $600 million over three years to shore up its financial health. The amount is less than […]

THE WOODLANDS, TX — “Look to the East and you’ll see a major initiative to transform New York’s electric grid into a cleaner, more efficient system. Look to the West and you’ll find ambitious clean energy legislation in California. Yet utility executives and federal regulators recently gathered in the Midwest […]

EVANSVILLE, IN — “To see one of the country’s largest coal-fired power plants, head northwest from this Ohio River city. Or east, because there’s another in the region. In fact, nearly every direction you go will take you to a coal plant — seven within 30 miles. Collectively they pump […]

OAK HARBOR — “FirstEnergy Corp. said Monday it expects its Davis-Besse nuclear plant to remain idle for at least a few more days as the utility tries to figure out how rainwater entered the plant’s turbine building during a heavy storm early Saturday. Without going into specifics, the company also […]

Members supporting clean energy in Ohio as of December 3, 2016

8,227 members have sent handwritten letters to Governor John Kasich.
32,352 members have signed our "End the Freeze" support statement in person at their door.
991 members have left voice messages with Governor Kasich's office asking him to end the freeze on clean energy standards in Ohio.
643 members called their state legislators, urging them to vote NO on HB 554 / SB 320
6,770 members have sent public comments to the Public Utilities Commission asking them to deny American Electric Power and Dayton Power & Light mandatory, residential fixed fees, also known as the “customer charge.”
344 members have signed our "End the Freeze" on-line petition.